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THURSDAY 6TH OCTOBER 2011
NATION&WORLD
Conroy says pretenders
‘few squeaky noises’
AAP
PULL your head in: that’s
Communications Minister
Stephen Conroy’s message for
any Labor MPs agitating for a
leadership change.
Former Labor powerbroker
Graham Richardson used
his self-titled television show
yesterday to “out” former defence
personnel minister Alan Griffin
and West Australian senator
Mark Bishop as being behind the
push to reinstall former prime
minister Kevin Rudd.
But Senator Conroy said he’d
seen no evidence at all that
either had been drumming up
support for a challenge.
“Neither of those have phoned
me, spoken to me or sent any
messages to me at all along those
lines,” he told the Nine Network
this morning. Read more
Union push for wealth fund
AAP
ABOUT 100 representatives from
business, unions, government and
academia have gathered in Canberra for
a jobs forum today
The gathering, which follow a two-day
tax forum, is aimed at positioning
the nation to make the most of the
changing global economy.
The major agenda items for the forum
include the changing structure of the
Australian economy... Read more
Minogue cancer honour
POP princess Kylie Minogue has received
an honorary doctorate for her work in
raising awareness of breast cancer.
The singer, who was diagnosed with
the disease in 2005, was made an
honorary Doctor of Health Sciences by
Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford,
southern England.
Wearing a doctoral cap and gown,
Minogue told students... Read more
Kennett gay parent reversal
FORMER Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett
has shifted his stance on gay parenting in an
apparent bid to mollify the gay and lesbian
community. In a pre-recorded interview to
be played on gay and lesbian radio station
Joy FM today, the former premier reverses an
earlier stance in which he said: ‘’Clearly the
best environment in which to bring a child
into the world is a stable, loving environment
in which a male and female are married to
each other.’’
Read Melissa Fyfe’s story in The Age.
Michael O’Connor
NY chopper probe
PETER MITCHELL : AAP
NYPD officers who jumped into New York’s
East River to save two Australian tourists and
others in a helicopter that crashed into the
icy waterway have spoken about the dramatic
rescue.
“It was a lot more difficult than what I thought
it would be,” Lieutenant Lawrence Serras said
during an interview on American morning TV
show, The Early Show.
The crash killed Sydney’s Sonia Marra
Nicholson, who was in... Read more
Mining threat in Philippines
AUSTRALIAN and Japanese officials have expressed concern
over an attack by more than 200 communist guerrillas on
three mining compounds that destroyed trucks, equipment,
barges and offices in the southern Philippines.
The New People’s Army rebels disarmed guards, briefly
held company staff, and torched company offices and heavy
equipment during the attacks on Monday on three mines
run by Nickel Asia Corp and Platinum Group Metals Corp in
remote Claver town in Surigao del Norte province.
Read more
Asylum seeker X-rays ‘unethical’
FEDERAL Immigration Minister Chris Bown has been warned that
using X-rays to determine the age of crewmen from asylum-seeker
boats is “unethical” and “unreliable”.
In a letter sent to Mr Bowen top medical organisations warned Mr
Bowen that the tests would be “un-trustworthy” and would be illegal
in Britain, the Australian reported on Thursday.
The letter, sent by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians,
the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, the
Australian and New Zealand Society for Paediatric Radiology and the
Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group... Read more
Stephen Conroy ... ‘get on with selling the message’
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